Para o IV Concurso Literário da BCo (Biblioteca Comunitária da UFSCar)

Resposta ao Sr. Tim – Henrique Y. Takahashi

Olho indiferentemente para o conteúdo da página da internet e fecho-a. Fixo meu olhar para a Praia de Ipanema: areia branca, mar azul, sol incandescente; pena que não posso sentir a areia queimando meus pés, a brisa que traz o mar, o sol traz o meu suor, é apenas uma fotografia que peguei no Google e coloquei como papel de parede.

E sabe a quem devo este tour à Cidade Maravilhosa? Um tal de Mr. Berners-Lee o gênio-criador da internet. Se não fosse por ele, teria que economizar durante três anos para a minha viagem no Rio, em um ônibus sem ar-condicionado, cheirando a mofo de estofado. Mas que alívio! Se tivesse na época da máquina de escrever, estaria agora ansiosamente esperando um lugar no ônibus para uma viagem de 15 horas.

Por enorme gratidão ao Sr. Timothy John Berners-Lee, apresentarei a história de sua contribuição para razoável parte da Humanidade.

 Em meados dos anos 60 foi feito o parto da nossa querida internet, um bebezinho ainda franzino, miúdo, ainda não tinha toda a fama de super star que tem atualmente. Nessa época a rede internet era utilizada, com sucesso, entre estudiosos para trocar informações, seria uma espécie muito distante de ICQ, MIRC (para os mais antigos), MSN, orkut, facebook, twitter (para os mais novos) entre os intelectuais da época. Imagino Steve Jobs bloqueando Bill Gates no MSN.

Até que um dia, lá na França, com a famosa torre no seu devido lugar, ao som de sotaques com biquinhos, os chefões do Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (Conselho Europeu para Pesquisa Nuclear) – o maior centro de estudos tecnológicos do mundo – sentaram impacientemente para escutar as idéias do nosso querido Sr. Tim. Após horas de reunião e alguns rascunhos de desenhos no canto do caderno por parte dos executivos, Sr. Tim conseguiu convencer que era importante de todos nós ficarmos horas na internet, que não era somente uma exclusividade dos estudiosos.

Após anos de pesquisa, Sr. Tim criou a sigla HTTP (que 80% das pessoas não sabem, inclusive eu, até uma pesquisa para esta crônica), que fica antes de qualquer “www”. Este HTTP é abreviação de “hypertex transfer protocol”, que seria um sistema de comunicação entre os computadores de forma a tornar a rede gráfica e interativa.

“Uma rede gráfica e interativa” é o que resume a internet. Após sua criação, a rede entre pessoas criadas é gigantesca, além de substituição de várias formas de interação e obtenção de conhecimento. Podemos citar a já aposentada enciclopédia, que tinham as suas vendedoras de meia-idade batendo porta em porta para vender as enormes enciclopédias, em troca de pesquisas instantâneas com palavras-chave e somente clicar em “Busca” que se encontram inúmeras páginas sobre o assunto procurado com inúmeras pesquisas prontas. E as relações pessoais? Tenho amigos meus que mora na mesma casa, mas para conversarem, se estiverem na internet, se falam através de mensagens instantâneas, ao invés de levantarem da cadeira e ir ao quarto para dizer alguma coisa.

Sei que não estou sendo tão grato assim ao Sr. Tim, é que a internet também tem seus reveses (principalmente antes do papel de parede de Ipanema). Alguns ficam viciados, ocupam boa parte do dia e da noite (e da vida) na frente do computador. Pode ser que não era a intenção de nosso bom criador, ou que a culpa não seja dele, seja dos criadores do Personal Computer, aí poderíamos convidar, por exemplo, o Sr. Jobs para culpar. Creio que seria mais justo, nesta crônica, fazer isto.

Não sei por que estou reclamando, economizei duzentos reais e 15 horas de viagem, creio que preciso pedir desculpas ao Sr. Tim:

From: Henrique Yagui Takahashi – henrique.takahashi@hotmail.com

To: Mr. Timothy John Berners-Lee – burners-lee@creaternet.com

Prezado Sr. Timothy,

Sabe aquele café que tínhamos marcado para o sábado? Pois então, não poderei ir.

Poderíamos conversar via MSN na segunda a noite?

Muito Grato.

Henrique.

I sometimes live on the bleeding edge of technology. Some like to call this being an “early adapter.” Others think I should join a support program with a twelve-step program. My office has a room devoted to hardware and software I’ve bought, tried out, experimented upon, recommended, and sometimes even installed for my consulting company clients, including quite a few law firms.

When I built a new house a few years ago, I just had to investigate the new energy conservation devices, which could lower my utility bills, reduce my “carbon footprint,” and save the world. Likewise, I just had to experiment with design of home theatre and security system wiring, and the home computer network itself. I sometimes chatted about these with others in the neighborhood who were building houses, but didn’t mention one “enhancement” I had secretly worked on.

As the house was being built, I realized it would be more cost efficient to do all the wiring I would ever need, up front, rather than piece-mealing it later. I had been reading about the strides toward creation of working “smart houses” and other Web 3.0 applications, so I decided to make an investment in the future.

I worked with the various vendors installing my alarm system, home theater, cable, phone and other electronic systems, and got them to lay the groundwork for me. Then, being the bleeding edge geek I am, I began my own tinkering, gradually adding new components, as they entered beta stage. Fortunately, one of my clients is an appliance company, so I was able to make some relatively good purchases and get great deals on some important components.

When Thanksgiving came up on my calendar this year, I decided it was time to give the new system a trial run. I really wasn’t ready for a full-blown trial run, but one of my sons knows a lot more about this stuff than I do, so I figured if I got some of the system up and running, he would be in town at Thanksgiving to give me a hand debugging the parts.

This was also going to be the first year with multiple grandchildren, in addition to some of our friends who had become annual Thanksgiving dinner guests. That meant we had to get out the extra leaf for the dining room table, but it really meant the logistics were starting to add up to the point of being almost unmanageable. The question was whether or not I somehow pull off this Web 3.0 Thanksgiving plan in time to really help.

I got out my copy of Microsoft Project and went to work. This had to be a collaborative effort and, fortunately, seemed to be an interesting challenge for the partners in the project. Admittedly, I felt a little like Chevy Chase in one of my favorite movies of the season, Christmas Vacation, trying to pull off wiring the house to win the neighborhood Christmas lighting prize, but eventually, I finished and it was time to send out the invitations.

I decided to start with an old favorite, evite®, so I could at least try to track who would really be coming and send guest updates in a burst. It also helped get a few other issues out of the way early, such as special dietary concerns of some of the guests, coordinating menu items for those who always insist on bringing Aunt Tillie’s famous recipe, etc. I know there are lots of invitation applications out there, but since I’ve used evite® for many events and was familiar with the foibles and periodic “surprises” as it continues to develop, it was an easy choice for alerting guests to “save the date,” and then to harvest the data as we got closer to The Big Day.

Like many American families, we have established some traditions over the years. That meant timing of various parts of the event had to be precise. With folks arriving at various times, subject to last minute variables, this was always a challenge. I thought it would be interesting to see if a preview of a Web 3.0 world would be any better.

Once the first round of evite® responses started to come back and we had our first estimate of the number of guests and basic menu, I was able to get some online counsel for wine pairings with the various dishes, estimate the number of bottles needed, and place my order. One task completed.

About the time we were building our new house, I happened to read Christoper Allbritton’s story in Popular Mechanics, Control Your Appliances Over The Internet. I tried to remain mindful of Albritton’s reference to the “Terminator” sci-fi movies, and scenario where the  fictional military artificial intelligence defense system, Skynet, takes over for humans and then starts to eradicate them as a potential threat. Since my plans didn’t include any air-to-ground missiles, I decided that LG Electronics’ HomNet was a good place to start. After all, their home page says:

LG HomNet is the total home network solution providing a convenient secure, joyful and affluent lifestyle anywhere and anytime with the integration of various digital home appliances. LG HomNet makes the future lifestyle into reality. LG HomNet will usher into a future lifestyle that used to be possible only in the movies and the imagination, together with ultra-high speed Internet, artificial intelligence, and advanced robots.

LG HomNet, a home network system developed by state-of-the-art technologies from LG Electronics!

You will be provided with a new pleasant and convenient digital living culture of the 21^st century through intelligent networking of all-digital appliances, agnostic to any wired and wireless communication technology.

We invite you to a new living culture which has been dreamed about by the whole human race.

Aside from the grammatical issues in LG’s statement, and hoping their use of the term “agnostic” was meant to be closer to the original Greek, as opposed to the more recent religious interpretation, who could resist something, which would provide a convenient, secure, joyful, and affluent lifestyle, anywhere and anytime? Not me.

After taking the HomNet Experience online, I started with the refrigerator/server, adding the ovens, microwaves, and some other appliances in the kitchen. This proved a handy way to coordinate keeping foods chilled, cooking the hot foods, timing the warming of those foods in the food queue, and even providing a shopping list tied into the menu archive, and the family calendar, which is always visible on the door of the refrigerator. This was also great to avoid the previously inevitable, last minute return trips to the grocery for an item that didn’t make it on the old paper grocery lists. Now we could take remote inventory from the store, to make sure we really had walnuts for the dressing or enough whipping cream for the pie.

Once the big day came, we could actually sit back for the first time, and just wait for last minute evite® updates on arrival times. Granted, as James Gunter points out in his law enforcement blog post, Twitter is Not the Holy Grail of Emergency Notification, using Twitter alone as an alarm system is dangerous, but if only the turkey is at state, this may be sufficient. With our Twitter early warning system tied into the day’s calendar on our refrigerator, we were notified, in order, that: our oldest son and girlfriend were on their way; younger son and new grandchildren would be slightly delayed, due to a diaper change; our daughter’s friends would have to make a stop to pick something up on the way; and my old law firm partner and family would be here “soon.”

“Soon” always had a special meaning for my old partner’s arrival, but having done an earlier blog post on the Twitter Geoloction API, I had convinced him to start “tweeting.” With a little advanced coordination, I was able to tell they had not left home yet, was alerted when they started to move in our direction, and a new ETA appeared next to their family avatar on our handy refrigerator/server/message center. Our voice recognition system and data-to speech-program even announced that guests were arriving, making those already inside our “smart house” feel like they were early guests at a presidential ball, where dignitaries are announced as they enter. This was particularly helpful in marshalling the troops to help get the new twins inside before the fresh air woke them up.

Really Cool, New Sixth-Sense Technology was the pride and joy of my new system, even if it was still a beta version. The cobbled aggregation consists of off-the-shelf, Web cam, portable battery-powered 3-D projection system, and other devices connected to the user’s cell phone. The system’s ability to project keypads and other tools onto any surface, to make it a device like those used by Tom Cruise in Minority Report, proved very helpful in the game room. The RFID tracking system allowed us to locate the kids who were tardy in departure from the media room, turning down the heat in that room during dinner, and returning them to the appropriate spot in the movie they were watching upon their return.

We were able to use all this technology to time when dinner started, so the parents of the little kids enjoyed the rare treat of being able to eat in relative peace, coordinating with nap and infant feeding schedules for that optimal state of “joyfulness” promised by the appliance company. It also allowed us to finish before the preselected football games appeared on the adult’s monitors, cartoons came up for the tikes, and video games for the rest of the younger kids.

The background music, which gradually came up as we sat down to eat was a nice touch, as was the list of conversation points, which appeared in the wireless 3D i-glasses some had elected to wear. The ability to look through the glasses at a guest, allow the facial recognition and identification system enough time to identify the guest, and then call up conversation topics suggested by their Facebook references, and other social media search results, including their blogs, proved interesting, if not a little too revealing for some.

The great meal now being history, we can review the video record of the whole event to work on ways to improve it for next year. Using the facial recognition and identification system, we can piece together the level of “joyfulness” for each family member and guest, item-by-item, and plug these back into project software to start planning next year’s event.

The transportation alert module paid off in the first year, letting my oldest son and girlfriend know the system was well on the way to rerouting them back to Chicago, due to a snow storm interrupting their original plans to fly back into O’Hare. The placemats, inspired by some iPhone apps,  allowed us to check just how much food each family member and guest had consumed, and for those who desired it, their iPhone apps would now “remind” them of the exercise plan the system had outlined to return them to normal size, including, of course, the appropriate level of play on their Wii Fit™ system at home.

Now, on to Cyber Monday Shopping.

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Apologies to Berners Lee, whose article, The Semantic Web, in a 2001 edition of Scientific American, gave rise to this story. Lucy, in the original story, instructed her Semantic Web agent through her handheld Web browser to conduct a search which started to define the term, Web 3.0.

That’s what I think. Please leave a comment and let us know what you think.

If you are really interested, I just started yet another free group on LinkedIn, Social Media Search and Forensics. Many of these articles and discussion about them are posted there. Please join us.

World Wide Web Foundation Launches Operations and First Projects

Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Tim Berners-Lee announced today that World Wide Web Foundation is open for business. World Wide Web Foundation was created with W3C’s support in September 2008, and focuses on advancing the Web as a medium that empowers people to make positive social and economic change.

Web Foundation’s first two projects will help people to better leverage the Web to support agriculture in near-desert environments in Africa, and empowering youth in inner-city centers by teaching them how to create Web content. Such projects are consistent with W3C’s own work to ensure that One Web is available to all, including work on mobile Web for social development, accessibility, and internationalization. W3C looks forward to collaborating with World Wide Web Foundation to further lower barriers to access and to promote the development of free and open Web standards.

Source w3c

Todo empezó en 1991 cuando Tim Berners Lee creó la web y el hipertexto. Desarrolló el html o lenguaje de etiquetas de hipertexto, así como también las URL. Dijo que en el año 2000 deberíamos ser capaces todos no sólo de encontrar cualquier tipo de documento en la web sino de crear cualquier clase de documento fácilmente, ése era su deseo.

Se habla constantemente sobre la Web 2.0, pero, ¿en realidad qué es? Wikipedia la define como un término “utilizado para referirse a una segunda generación en la historia del desarrollo de tecnología Web basada en comunidades de usuarios y una gama especial de servicios, como las redes sociales, los blogs, los wikis o las folcsonomías, que fomentan la colaboración y el intercambio ágil y eficaz de información entre los usuarios de una comunidad o red social. La Web 2.0 es también llamada web social por el enfoque colaborativo y de construcción social de esta herramienta”.

Tim O’Reilly fue quien le dio forma al concepto de Web 2.0. Dice que la nueva web no es un tema tecnológico sino humano, internet es sólo la plataforma.

Se puede decir que una web está construida usando tecnología de la Web 2.0 si se caracteriza por las siguientes técnicas:

•    Técnicas:

o    CSS, marcado XHTML válido semánticamente y Microformatos
o    Técnicas de aplicaciones ricas no intrusivas (como AJAX)
o    Java Web Start
o    XUL
o    Redifusión/Agregación de datos en RSS/ATOM
o    URLs sencillas con significado semántico
o    Soporte para postear en un blog
o    JCC y APIs REST o XML
o    JSON
o    Algunos aspectos de redes sociales
o    Mashup (aplicación web híbrida)

•    General:

o    El sitio no debe actuar como un “jardín cerrado”: la información debe poderse introducir y extraer fácilmente
o    Los usuarios deberían controlar su propia información
o    Basada exclusivamente en la Web: los sitios Web 2.0 con más éxito pueden ser utilizados enteramente desde un navegador
o    La existencia de autolinks es requisito imprescindible

La Web 2.0 es la transición que se ha dado de aplicaciones tradicionales hacia aplicaciones que funcionan a través de la web enfocadas al usuario final. Es una etapa que ha definido nuevos proyectos en Internet y está preocupándose por brindar mejores soluciones para el usuario final. Muchos aseguran que hemos reinventado lo que era el Internet, otros hablan de burbujas e inversiones, pero la realidad es que la evolución natural del medio realmente ha propuesto cosas más interesantes como lo analizamos diariamente en las notas de actualidad. (Maestros del Web).

It’s been a while since I mentioned on the Studio one of my pet subjects, the semantic web. But that does not mean that I haven’t been reading anything and everything I find on it. I found an interesting article published a few days ago at Government Computing News discussing worldwide databases and linked data and peppered with interesting information from Tim Berners-Lee, that crazy guy who invented the Web. Thought I might share it.

Berners Lee is discussing how the Web’s links can be further manipulated to astounding effect by coding data for the Web in a linked format. If this was to happen, the “‘net” effect would be a worldwide database that machines can read. The coding framework for creating linked data is called Resource Description Framework (RDF).  The BBC, BestBuy and eBay are among the early adopters of RDF.

The push now is for governments to take up the charge and utilize linked data to move us closer to the global goal. The value add is the difference between making the data available and making the data available for processing and manipulation and, thusly, far more usuable. Coding the data with RDF allows browsers and other applications to automatically pull that data from disparate web sites to make connections between concepts. For example (from the article), if you are looking at a desired address on one web page and then move to another web page to book a flight, the address information from the prior page will be automatically provided to you on the new page, without you have to cut, copy, paste or otherwise manually mark the data.

RDF works because it breaks that data out into elements that can be associated. The data gets three nodes – subject, predicate and object. Each element gets its own uniform web location via uniform resource identifiers. It works much like an extension to an HTML metatag, the stepping stones read by browsers inserted on web pages. The extensions could even be rendered like hashtags, a concept familiar to Twitter users. The hashtag would signal a universal concept that could be read by browsers and used to create the data links.

The concepts behind Linked Data and the semantic web are not easy for web developers and site developers, let alone the average Jo, to grapple  with. But the ultimate result will be a web experience that is simple and graceful. Machines will assist in making connections between data that the human operator may never have considered.  And to the researcher in me, that is a concept too exciting to pass up!

Forgive my geeky diversion! Let’s hope that some of our venerable web legal research resources consider taking up the charge by grafting some RDF goodness onto their data.

Svegliarsi la mattina e ricordarsi di aver concepito Internet deve essere una sensazione strana che potrebbe generare un senso di soddisfazione a appagamento. Tim Berners-Lee, idealmente padre della nuova società digitale, continua invece nella sua sfida al cambiamento. Di recente aveva manifestato il suo rammarico per alcune scelte compiute nella creazione del World Wide Web, sostenendo che oggi lo avrebbe concepito in modo molto diverso, lamentando anche l’errore fatto nell’utilizzo della popolare, quanto inutile, formula ”http://”.  Immaginate quanti miliardi di caratteri non necessari siano stati digitati in questi anni da parte di tutto il pianeta.

Troppo tardi per tornare indietro, ma nonostante i rimpianti, il fisico britannico, due decadi dopo la sua invenzione, è ora al lavoro per lanciare la versione 5 dello standard HTML, una riscrittura del linguaggio utilizzato per costruire le pagine web. HTML 5 sarà un mix di diverse tecnologie che consentiranno di spingersi oltre le limitazioni del linguaggio attuale.

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Thoughts on Sir Tim Berners-Lee, mobility and beyond at the Web 2.0 Summit 2009

Tim Berners-Lee at the Web 2.0 Summit - "We didn't call it 'World-Wide' Web for nothing"

London schoolboy Tim Berners-Lee was just 14 when two computers talked to each other for the very first time 40 years ago via ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet. It’s safe to say this turned out to be a bigger deal than anyone knew at the time (except maybe young Tim).

When he first conceived of the World Wide Web 20 years later (in 1989), Berners-Lee knew it had to be a fully open, public-domain platform. As he explained in conversation with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco, “otherwise it would not have worked.” The system had to be really flexible, without proprietary formats and constraints, “a very creative read-write space, like a sandbox — a group collaborative thing,” to enable it to spread its usefulness across the whole world as he had conceived it.  “It had to be — we didn’t call it ‘World-Wide’ Web for nothing.”

One score, the change of a millennium, and the “versioning” of WWW to “Web 2.0″ later, the Web is still trying to fulfill that promise. Berners-Lee acknowledges that Web platforms and blogs and wikis have approached that collaborative vision, but in an awesome perspective in his session which closed the conference, he reminded us that “only 20-25 percent of humanity actually uses the Web at all.”

While this begs the question how and whether the Web should extend to blanket the other three-quarters of the world, if you turn it around you can see that Web 2.0, now a kindergartner at five years old, is ready to be and continues to be itself disrupted through its reach — and hopefully by those who will need it the most.

The most recent, most potent disruptions are happening in the mobile, realtime, and local spaces and hence into the “everywheres and everyones” through the corners of the Earth. This year’s Summit did not disappoint along those lines both in terms of real news, cutting-edge developments, and a little bit of whimsey along the way.

On the local, realtime front, with a big kick in the pants by Twitter, the major search players are paying a lot of attention to the “everywhere, everyone, AND all at once” phenomenon (read Jeremiah Owyang’s good wrap from a business perspective on the related Google / Microsoft announcements). But one thing that was almost lost in the hype — almost buried in Marissa Mayer’s surprise announcement of  Google Social Search — is the local aspect.  Through the years we’ve witnessed the evolution of “finding things” from Browse (Yahoo) –> to Search (Google) –> to Share (Facebook) — and now we approach the next phase: all of the above, then add “Where” — and then EveryWhere.

Take a good look at the demo: first the Twitter-dare-I-say-Google-open-social-graph announcement has to do with bringing the particular GeoLocation of New Zealand closer to home, via your social circle.  But toward the end of the demo Google solidifies the geo/local aspect. Says Mayer, “You can see how analyzing these social networks can really improve the overall relevance, comprehensiveness, and quality of the results. And one of the biggest pockets we’ve seen where this can really enhance your search experience is on local information. Has one of your friends already seen that play? Have they been to that restaurant or have they been to that hotel?”

This is important because local may literally be “the last mile”  (thanks @donambridge…) of the three-quarters-of-the-rest-of-the-world for Web search, which starts to look more and more “old-school” the more people’s blogs are visited because of Twitter instead of because of Google.

Add the mobile component to realtime+local, and you have the game-changing combination.  Mobile is the “incremental driver of Internet user / usage growth” according to the always-excellent Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker session (PDF). “Next generation platforms (social networking + mobile) are driving unprecedented change in communications and commerce.”

Via mobile, the native intelligence of your (social) presence is flipping the “reaching beyond 25% of the world” question sideways — so that it’s not (just) about the fact that mobile reaches further, but mobile allows us to change the reach entirely.

Path Intelligence: Mapping the audience

Cell phone signals render humans as sensors (watch the amazing inventions on this panel), via multiple sensors in your iPhones, via where you are when, and via what you are sharing — explicitly or implicitly — about it when you are there.  From the “implicit crowdsourcing” that provides traffic and route information via maps and real-time feeds of Waze, to the entertaining audience statistics (and more) that Path Intelligence could glean by our (cell-phone-enabled) presence, to tagged, geocoded images that help you find invasive plants, to the incredible concept of “telemicroscopy for disease disease diagnosis” (CellScope), to the portal ultrasound gadget that GE’s Jeff Immelt brought with him to more… Needless to say, there is a huge wealth of innovation happening in the realtime mobile sphere.

Beyond mobile (since mobile infrastructure is not yet everywhere), we also saw some amazing satellite innovations at the Summit. Walter Scott of DigitalGlobe stopped by to give us a demo and some intriguing ideas about satellite imagery that we can now refresh two to three times a day. Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke did not even visualize this!

Aaron Koblin -- Visualizing Amsterdam SMS messages

And speaking of visualization, some of the innovations coming out of the piles of data we get through all these mobile, real-time, world-wide sensors can be very, very beautiful.   Aaron Koblin, an artist specializing in data visualization who introduced  GAFFTA (Grey Area Foundation for the Arts) while at the Summit, has an amazing sandbox of visualizations.

So while only one in four people have ever touched the World Wide Web at all, both the Web and these people are going further than ever before. Tim Berners-Lee advises us to concentrate on the emergent trends of GeoLocation and a move from Web pages to mobile and apps, as well as the upcoming standard of HTML5. And one key takeaway from him is that we need to “make sure the Web is designed appropriately for other cultures as well.”

And while we’re at it, let’s make sure we’re listening to those other cultures and watching for the beauty in the great big pile of data, because “the other 75%” of everywhere has at least as big a chance of disrupting the Web as the Web has of disrupting it.

Did You Know Who is Find INTERNET for the First Time ?

Berners-Lee appreciated as the creator of Internet. Web world that have been created by himself already gave great changes for all people in this world quickly.

That’s all began on 1989. Berners-Lee made a proposal for global hypertext production, that would be named World Wide Web (WWW). On that time, the comn louder of Physics Faculty Queen’s College, Oxford University, London was working in the office of erudite data distribution CERN in Jenewa, Swiss.

Berners-Lee * who found internet for the first time .

He was starting his project on October 1990. Twelve months later, WWW could be runed in CERN environment. On summer 1991, WWW have been opening widely in network of internet.

During spanning year of 1991 until 1993, Berners-Lee continued to make web to be showed optimally. He made scheme for web pages and coordinated all inputs from internet users. He also knowing as the first man who made browser, server, and protocol key for internet. His work’s result in URL address production, HTTP using, and HTML code proven succeed and can be greatprogress in development of web technology.

Because of his commendable, Berners-Lee appreciated Millenium Technology Prize in Helsinky, Finlandia on Juny 15th, 2007. That appreciated is the first time of present equal to US$ 1,2 million (is about 10,4 billion rupiah) for Berners-Lee.

Would you believe that the double slash needed for web addresses wastes millions of dollars?:

‘The double slash, though a programming convention at the time, turned out to not be really necessary, Mr. Berners-Lee explained. Look at all the paper and trees, he said, that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labor and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes.
(Today’s browsers, of course, automatically fill in the “http://” preamble when a user types a Web address.)’ –bits.blogs.nytimes

And do you know that in 2008, Google earned nearly $22 billion [/source] due to its advertising models, Google AdWords and Google AdSense? –electronics.howstuffworks

O homem que inventou a World Wide Web (a WWW, que é a base da internet) pediu desculpas por ter colocado duas barras na frente dos endereços eletrônicos. O cientista britânico Tim Berners-Lee, que criou a WWW há quase 30 anos, disse que o uso dos caracteres “//” após o “http:” é desnecessário. Segundo o jornal britânico “The Times”, Berners-Lee disse em uma palestra em Washington que poderia ter criado os endereços sem as duas barras.
by Folha Online

Como diria um conhecido meu: “BIXO BURRO!”

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, was born on the 8th june 1955 in London, UK. He was graduated in phisycs from the university of Oxford in the year 1976. We can say that he was one of the inventors of the World Wide Web as he first  made the proposal for it in March 1989. However, the first general ideas were outlined before Tim Berners-Lee ’s proposal. He became sir in 2004 as was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

He is the director of the world wide web consortium, which developes the technologies to lead the web to its full potential. He is the  founder of the world wide web foundation as well, and a senior researcher and a holder of the 3comb Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. While working at CERN, he proposed a project based on the hypertext, to make easier the sharing and updating information among all the reasearchers.

In 1989 he realized that internet was one of the biggests inventions in the world, so he decided that it would be a good idea if the hypertext and the internet became one. That’s why he proposed to do so, giving birth to the World Wide Web, the most used device or computer application in the world nowadays. His first proposal of the web wasn’t so well known or recognized,so with the help of Robert Cailliau they achieved to make a better version of it which was accepted by their manager.

In 1994 he joined the scientifict laboratory of the computation and artificial intelligence of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that’s why he moved to the EE. UU were he started the W3C which is currently under his direction.

In 2001 he became part of the Royal Society and he was awarded several time with different kind of prices such as the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany’s Die Quadriga award.

He is the author of “Waving the web”.

References:

*Tim Berners-Lee. (2009, October 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:51, October 5, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Berners-Lee&oldid=318071668

*  Tim Berners-Lee. (2009). Retrieved, October 5, 2009, from http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/.

Tim Berners-Lee londresen jaio zen 1995ko ekainaren 8an. fisika ikasi zuen eta Oxford Unibertsitatean lizentziatu zen. Web-aren aitatzat hartzen dute Berners-Lee.

Tim eta honen taldekideek HTML lengoaia, HTTP protokoloa eta URL web-ean objektuen aurkitze sistema sortu zituzten.

Berners-Lee CERNen egin zuen lan eta hipertestuan oinarritutako proiektu bat egin zuen ikerlarien artean, informazioa trukatu eta gaurkotzeko. ENQUIRE izeneko programa bat ere sortu zuen, argitara eraman ez zuena.

CERN Europako Internet nodorik handiena zen 1989.urtean eta Berners-Leek Internet eta hipertestua (HTTP ETA HTML) elkartzeko aukera bikaina ikusi zuen; ondoren elkartze horretatik World Wide Web sortuko zena. Enquire sisteman erabilitako antzerako ideiak erabili zituen World Wide Web-a sortzeko.

Tim Berners-Leek azaldu egiten du nolako hazkundean izan duen sareak azkenengo hamar urte hauetan. Hasiera batean, sarea Internetduen azpiegiturari esker zabaldu zen. Timek sarearen idea izan zuenean, 80. hamarkadan, inbestigazio unibertsitate eta institutuetako ordenagailuak haien artean konektaturik zeuden informazioa trukatzeko. Berners-Leek dioen moduan, sarea oso azkar hedatu zen eta edonork sortu dezake zerbitzari bat baimenik eskatu gabe.

Azkenik, Berners-Leek hainbat sari irabazi ditu urte hauetan zehar. 

ITURRIAK:

• Tim Berners-Lee. (2009, Iraila 15). Wikipedia, Entziklopedia askea. Retrieved 18:54, Urria 4, 2009 from http://eu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Berners-Lee&oldid=1223243.
• Ethirajan Anbarasan periodista del Correo de la UNESCO. Urriak 4, 09. from http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_09/sp/dires.htm
• Diario EL MUNDO. Urriak 4, 09, from http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/personajes/bernerslee.html

Tim Berners-Lee was born the 8th of June of 1955 (aged 54) in the United Kingdom and became famous for inventing the World Wide Web.

He graduated in The Queen’s College, in Oxford and he started working in CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland) as a software consultant, but this was only a temporary work so he had to leave. However, some years later he came back with a more permanent job. In 1989, he submitted a proposal to develop an information system that would create a web of information. Although anyone listened to his idea, he decided to carry on working on it, and that’s when he made the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Also known as HTTP). Of course, he also had to do something which would read this HTTP, so he created the WWW. This hypertext pages had Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format, and using this, he created the first server ever, which was called ‘info.cern.ch.’

CERN was still not very interested in his idea so he decided to turn to the Internet community. Making the WWW available for the Internet, he managed to get people to try it and make they own servers. After that, those people linked their page to CERN’s info page. This is how everything started. What started being just a simple idea to connect some scientist around the internet, now has more than 100 millions of websites.
So we can really say that the WWW is one of the most important inventions ever, and that it’s used by millions of people all around the world.

His job made him win lots of awards, and these are them:

1995:

• Kilby Foundation’s “Young Innovator of the Year” Award
• ACM Software Systems Award (co-recipient)
• Honorary Prix Ars Electronica
• Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society

1997:

• Awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE)
• IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
• Duddell Medal of the Institute of Physics
• Interactive Services Association’s Distinguished Service Award
• MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Leadership in Innovation
• International Communication Institute’s Columbus Prize

1998:

• Charles Babbage award
• Mountbatten Medal of the National Electronics Council
• Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology
• PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence
• MacArthur Fellowship
• The Eduard Rhein Technology Award
• Honorary Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers

1999:

• Named “One of the 100 greatest minds of the century” by Time Magazine
• World Technology Award for Communication Technology
• Honorary Fellowship, The Society for Technical Communications

2000:

• Paul Evan Peters Award of ARL, Educause and CNI
• Electronic Freedom Foundation’s Pioneer Award
• George R Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award, American Computer Museum
• Special Award for Outstanding Contribution of the World Television Forum

2001:

• Sir Frank Whittle Medal, the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Fellow, Royal Society
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2002:

• Japan Prize, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
• Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technical Research (shared with with Larry Roberts, Rob Kahn and Vint Cerf)
• Fellow, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation
• Albert Medal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

2004:

• Knighted (KBE) by H.M. the Queen for services to the global development of the Internet
• Millennium Technology Prize
• Special Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Member, American Philosophical Society

2005:

• Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service for Mass Communications
• Die Quadriga Award
• Financial Times Lifetime Achievement Award

2006:

• President’s Medal, the Institute of Physics

2007:

• Awarded the Order of Merit by H.M. the Queen
• Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering
• Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society
• D&AD President’s Award for Innovation and Creativity
• MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) Leadership Award
• Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering

2008:

• BITC Award for Excellence
• IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
• Fellow, IEEE
• Pathfinder Award, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2009:

• Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences
• Webby Awards Lifetime Achievement Award

Resources:

• Tim Berners-Lee. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:07, October 4, 2009, from: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
• Tim Berners-Lee. In w3.org. Retrieved 15:29, October 4, 2009, from: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
• Internet Pioneers, Tim Berners-Lee. In ibiblio. Retrieved 15:45, October 4, 2009, from: http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html
• Sir Timothy Berners-Lee. In w3.org. Retrieved 15:49, October 4, 2009, from: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html
• Biografía de Tim Berners-Lee / World Wide Web – W3C. In Mastermagazine. Retrieved 14:03, October 4, 2009, from: http://www.mastermagazine.info/articulo/11787.php

Se trate de un fragmento de documental de 15 minutos en el que se explica el nacimiento de la World Wide Web, además de terminos como: Url, http y html.

Para mas información sobre Timothy John Berners-Lee o podeis buscar su libro tejiendo la red, aunque la traduccion no debe ser muy buena.

Olá pessoas que se envolvem, que se divertem, que dependem, que pensam a Web…

Finalmente!!!

Finalmente consegui, depois de várias tentativas, deixar esse blog sobre a Web Semântica e Afins (Web, Internet, TICs etc) apresentável, “lível“!

Nem tinha assunto pra esse primeiro post. Mas o primeiro post precisava ser meu né! O objetivo do blog está em “Sobre o Blog”, as referências que eu usei na minha dissertação de mestrado sobre o tema estão em “Referências”, logo colocarei as que eu não usei, acho que vai ter mais… e uma introdução da introdução, bem introdutória sobre a Web Semântica está em “Sobre a Web Semântica”, juntamente com partes de um texto sobre seu funcionamento…

Mas um blog com bibliografia sobre a web!? Você está querendo concorrer com o Google é!? – podem perguntar os mais chatos. Pois é! As perguntas dos chatos geralmente são as mais pertinentes. Não quero concorrer com o Google, gostaria apenas de colocar em um único local, todo o material (as referências com seus links, se houver) sobre a Web Semântica e afins que levantei para a minha dissertação, muitas por íncrivel que seja, você não vai achar através do Google (interessante começarmos mudar o termo “no”, pelo “através” ou “por meio”, pois o Google não produz conhecimento, não tem nada no google, ele é  i n t e r m e d i á r i o… apenas!). Isso mesmo! Ele não tem tudo na sua base de dados, e se tivesse, a Web Semântica não seria necessária.

Pra começar, temos um cidadão “metendo o pau”, no bom sentido, nos objetivos da Web Semântica, conforme pensou Tim (Berners-Lee) e seu grupo: http://info.abril.com.br/noticias/internet/isso-e-perda-de-tempo-24072009-7.shl.

Tem também o texto sobre as possibilidades de funcionamento da Web 3.0 (nomenclatura mais porpular da Web Semântica) por Jonathan Strickland – traduzido por HowStuffWorks Brasil, que está em “Sobre a Web Semântica” e no link orignal http://informatica.hsw.uol.com.br/web-30.htm, que segue até fazer uma explicação sobre a Web Semântica, ou seja, eles entendem as duas nomenclaturas como idéias próximas, porém diferentes. Eu entendo como sinônimos de uma mesma proposta para uma melhoria da Web.

Viva ao Paul Otlet (o primeiro que pensou no hipertexto e na rede, não com esses nomes é claro!), ao Vannevar Bush (que acha que foi o primeiro, mas foi o segundo e tem sua importância, pois escreveu o texto considerado o marco zero da Web), ao Ted Nelson (que criou o termo literalmente, o cara é um inventor de palavras!), ao Tim Berners-Lee (que materializou tudo o que esses caras pensaram antes, e criou a Web, que não é a Internet) e ao Douglas Englebart (imagina navegar na Web sem o mouse!? Imaginou!? Seria f…).

Viva os links…! Imagina se eu tivesse que escrever alguma coisa sobre todas essas referências citadas…

Abraço.

Tim  Berners-Lee has made one of his not-too frequent posts upon the topic of e-government. In fact it’s not really e-government its about putting data online. The article is on the W3C web site.

This is probably highly appropriate since the W3C eGovernment Interest Group has reached its latest phase and published a draft charter.

With everyone working on data handling and information management, what I’d like to see is that we can use linked data, as envisaged by Berners-Lee but in a coordinated manner, so that the tools we emply internally can produce the data for external use by ourselves (which we may not need when external hosts can do it) and others.

Anyway, Berners-Lee provides lots of suggestions plus some ‘do’s and don’ts’. Lets do some.

The same metter is picked up in a piece in the McKinsey Quarterly entitled E-government 2.0, which reinforces the method but accepts the cultural hurdles to be leaped or stumbled over. Very importantly for me, Baumgarten and Chul, also consider it in a multichannel context by stating the need to “provide consistent experience and share learning across channels.”

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Ara que ja fa dies que ha passat tot el tema d’avaluacions a la meva facultat (ja som a vacances!), i tal com tenia pensat si les coses anaven bé, poso a la vostra disposició un petit treball divulgatiu sobre la Web Semàntica. Dic això de la meva facultat perquè aquest treball s’engloba dins l’assignatura d’intel·ligència artificial de la FIB.

Què és la Web Semàntica, a tot això? Doncs és un nou tipus de Web ideat pel creador original del que ara coneixem com a Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, i busca més eficiència i aprofitament dels recursos que el concepte de la Web ens posa a la nostra disposició. La clau és que un recurs web sàpiga què és, contingui metainformació, i sigui més fàcil d’accedir-hi en les cerques.

Tot això, però, ho descobrireu amb profunditat i exemples al document. Al ser un document divulgatiu, en principi qualsevol seria capaç d’entendre’l amb uns coneixements molt però que molt bàsics sobre la Web en general, que tot usuari més o menys comú hauria de tenir. He intentat ser clar i fer-me entendre per tal que tothom interessat es pugui informar.

Teniu el document disponible aquí.

A few quick snippets, as its Friday and I’m lazy.

Happy Friday!!!

Blessed Bealtaine

Hopefully anyone celebrating had a wonderful day, and may ye have a great weekend festival.

Update: Boards.ie Makes Tv Appearance

As posted here, Boards.ie featured on television. The show is now online, and can be found here.

Alien Skull? Indeed…

Not the skull.

A photo taken by NASA camera known as Spirit has caused some interest in the UFO community.

Some people believe the picture shows an aliens skull…

The “skull”. Looks like a rock…

Its not the first picture from Mars that has sparked interest, remember the “face” shown by Viking 1?

Nerin, feeling a little worried,then slightly humbled, slightly in awe.

Noticing some oddness over at Tweet.ie, when i’m informed that this guy had subscribed to me to test things out.

Yes kids, if you didn’t already know that’s the guy that created the internets, and has mucho respect from me. Reading through his stuff, he seems like a down to earth kind of guy, but much more above normal mortal intellects.

Now, do i bow or do i curtsy? 

Picture of the day

Do I have swine Flu?!

A new site is up to answer your questions.

Link

Clausurado en Madrid el 18º Congreso Internacional World Wide Web, WWW 2009 (vaya página que tienen), una conferencia que por mucho que me empeñara en promocionar en estas mismas líneas hace ya casi un año, me da la sensación que no ha tenido repercusión más allá de la inauguración por parte de los Príncipes o de la presencia de Berners-Lee, hasta hoy un perfecto desconocido y, a partir de ahora, un personaje más de las bitácoras ‘egogeneradoras’ que musculan el HTML del que se le otorga su invención hace ya 20 años.

En mi opinión, creo que hay demasiado teórico de salón, normalmente unido a un egogenerador, y pocos, o muy pocos, padres de ideas, personajes innovadores, perfiles creativos o, en definitiva, cabezas capaces de construir valor diferencial en la Red.

Es posible, y me preocupa, que Internet se esté considerando maduro, cuando es evidente que está en pañales, es más, no hemos salido de la talla 1, y lo único que se nos ocurre, hasta ahora, es casi siempre trasladar el negocio tradicional y de toda la vida a la plataforma online, calcando los errores y ajustando los aciertos, que muy rara vez son replicables en un medio que pide simpleza y claridad.

‘Liderando en la incertidumbre: Innovación y Marketing en estado puro’ es el título escogido por la organización del VI Encuentro ‘Hoy es Marketing’. ‘Buscar liderar la incertidumbre es‘, en palabras de Ícaro Moyano, director de comunicación de Tuenti en las páginas salmón de El País de hoy, ’un acierto, porque una ventana de incertidumbre es una ventana de oportunidad. Y esa es la ventana que va a ocupar Internet‘, el problema, y esto lo añado yo, surge cuando las ventanas de oportunidad se dejan en manos financieras o técnicas, que anteponen lo tangible a lo espiritual, dejándonos un mundo gris en el que dificílmente destaca el rosa. 

Este martes asistiré a las sesiones de ‘Hoy es Marketing’ en Madrid, donde espero encontrarme con muchos amigos y tratar de hablar del campo que nos ocupa, Internet, del que todavía tenemos ‘todo’ que extraer, prometiendo hacer lo posible para tratar de abandonar las filas de los teóricos y engrosar las raquíticas posiciones de ‘las ideas’, normalmente precedidas por los estados de soledad y enfangamiento.

Parto deseado de un nuevo cibermedio

Por fin, el nacimiento mediático más esperado de este año se ha producido. Lainformacion.com ha visto la luz este jueves en la red. Enhorabuena a los papás por el recién nacido y por el márketing tan bien llevado, pues ha creado grandes expectativas. Es hora de pasar y juzgar. (vídeo ‘Qué es Lainformacion.com‘ 2:58m Lo pongo sin interrogación porque el significado es diferente. Creo que sus autores saben perfectamente qué es lo que van a explicar, por lo que sobran los signos de pregunta)

El cumpleaños de la Red se celebró en Madrid

La Conferencia Mundial WWW 2009 de Madrid ha conmemorado el nacimiento de la World Wide Web con una mesa redonda de lujo. Ahora que se cumplen 20 años de la creación de la primera página web de la Historia en el Centro Europeo de Investigaciones Nucleares (CERN) de Ginebra, tanto Berners-Lee como Cerf han dejado claro en Madrid, que “La Web del futuro pondrá orden al caos actual de información en Internet“.   

Otro(s) artículo(s) sobre integración

Érica Contreras y Alberto Pastor realizan en Soitu un elaborado artículo sobre la integración de redacciones. Han buscado razones a favor y en contra, como es natural; pero es una lástima que finalmente se dejen llevar por la teoría dominante y abonen el pensamiento de lo inevitable por mandato de la tecnología, y encima con frases hechas: “Consideramos que es un paso necesario para adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos y saber cubrir las necesidades de los lectores de nuevo cuño” (¿?) Sin embargo, las razones que dan son exclusivamente económicas, algo que nada tiene que ver con los requerimientos de los usuarios (que no lectores, por cierto) de “nuevo” y de “viejo cuño”.

En el mismo medio, Ceuelche, se muestra más contenido y atiende al ídem.

Mario Tascón no entiende la integración (yo tampoco)

Lo que más me ha llamado la atención de la Conferencia Mundial WWW 2009 redacciones han sido, sin embargo, las declaraciones de Mario Tascón, director de Diximedia Digital editora del recién nacido Lainformacion.com. Es gratificante que empiecen a oírse con claridad voces autorizadas que afirman no creer en la integración de las redacciones. Es más, Tascón dijo que ‘no cree en el periodista multimedia’ y que apuesta por la ‘intuición’ en esta renovación de los medios de comunicación tradicionales. Para él, la incorporación de cadenas de televisión y diarios a internet está siendo fallida, ya que ofrecen un diseño y contenidos parecidos. ‘El camino real -añadió- es el que establece la divergencia entre los dos soportes el de papel y el de internet’ y ‘éste es el fallo que están cometiendo los medios en todo el mundo’. Otro error que resaltó es que las ‘redacciones de los diarios están absorbiendo la parte de la web’ cuando debe de ser al revés. Asimismo el periodista destacó que la publicidad está invirtiendo en los medios ‘online’, es decir en las ‘nuevas marcas’ como las redes sociales en detrimento de los grandes periódicos.

Vía Terra.es  

Pero, la industria manda

Pese a todo, la industria manda, el jueves de la semana pasada todos los trabajadores de The Whasington Post recibieron un mensaje de Marcus Brauchli, su director (ing.), en el que anuncia que la integración de las redacciones del diario. Sospecho que viviremos momentos en que esto no se verá como un signo de los tiempos, como algo que viene dado por la empresa (la economía) y no por necesidades del medio (¿de cuál del papel o del digital?) y mucho menos por la falta de diligencia de los periodistas. No, con el WP estas palabras son injustas:

A uno le parece que todo esto tiene que ver con sacudir la galbana, la modorra y la rutina, hechas costra tras largos años de monopolio de la inteligencia informativa y altos márgenes en el negocio. En fin, a competir, amiguitos. Vuelve el periodismo. Ese de salir corriendo al teléfono más próximo para contarlo primero. Bieeeeeeeeen. 

 

¿Y los periodistas qué?

Bajo este título comienza una demoledora entrada de Franco Piccato:

Primero la televisión fue la culpable. Después, Internet. Luego siguieron los bárbaros, los nativos digitales, que celular en mano, con una sed de múltiples conexiones y bajo el lema de “todo se comparte”, pusieron patas para arriba al ecosistema de medios. Ahora, la culpa es de la crisis financiera. O de las empresas de medios.

Rescata un apabullante post de Julio Perotti, Presente y futuro de los medios digitales, muy crítico el papel que hemos jugado los periodistas en la crisis actual de la prensa. 

Fuentes periodísticas en la Red

El estudio Periodismo y Web 2.0, pone sobre la mesa las preferencias de los periodistas y blogueros en lo que respecta al acceso a sus fuentes de información en la Red. Según la consultora de relaciones públicas y comunicación Best Relations, autora de la investigación, el objetivo “es adaptar los procesos de alimentación de noticias a las nuevas necesidades de los redactores, para que ellos puedan decidir qué tipo de noticias desean recibir, de qué manera y cuándo.”   

“Entre las conclusiones más relevantes del estudio cabe destacar el uso masivo que hacen los periodistas de las redes sociales. Así, la estrella entre este gremio es Facebook, ya que el 79% de los encuestados usa esta red al menos una vez en semana y el 80,7% declara que es su red social favorita. Le sigue muy de lejos Linkedin, usada por el 26,6%.”

“En cuanto a otros recursos de Internet que usan los periodistas y bloggers, la primera elección es Youtube, usado por un 88% de los encuestados. Le siguen de cerca los buscadores (85%), y entre ellos la estrella indiscutible es Google que ha sido elegida como la herramienta de Internet sin la que el 52,1% de los periodistas y bloggers encuestados no podrían vivir. En tercer lugar está Wikipedia, usada por el 83% de los encuestados y le sigue iGoogle (53%), itunes (43%), Flickr (39%) y Picasa (25%).”

Vía 

La Hemeroteca, finalista en los Eppy

La Hemeroteca de La Vanguardia, que permite la consulta gratuita en internet de los 128 años de historia del diario catalán, ha sido escogida como finalista en los prestigiosos premios Eppy de periodismo digital. Como es lógico en el periódico andan muy ufanos. Los ganadores se conocerán el próximo 7 de mayo durante la celebración de la Interactive Newspaper Conference que se celebrará en Nueva Orleans (EE UU). La Vanguardia.es lanzó este proyecto de a finales del pasado mes de octubre. Desde entonces, según informaciones propias, más de 1,2 millones de usuarios han consultado páginas o ejemplares completos de este diario publicados desde el 1 de febrero de 1881 hasta hoy. Un total de más de 16 millones de páginas vistas, según sus promotores, ha convertido a este servicio en el mayor patrimonio periodístico en español, puesto a disposición de los internautas de manera gratuita. Los usuarios pueden buscar por palabras, por fecha o por tendencias entre los más de dos millones de páginas publicadas a lo largo de la historia del diario, y ver las páginas en formato pdf tal y como fueron publicadas.

Nuevos paradigmas, porque esto va rápido

Merece la pena echar un vistazo al libro blanco ‘9on9′  de Edelman Digital Worldwide (ing.), pues reúne los pronósticos de nueve expertos en comunicación de todo el mundo y define el panorama que se dibuja para 2009. Entre  estas nueve claves o  “verdades digitales” comunicación, ya sean tecnológicas o de pensamiento, que están transformando traigo estas dos:

6. La juventud y el espíritu juvenil sigue imponiéndose, tanto en los negocios como en la vida. El mundo está lleno de geeks y chavales, así que el consejo de Murray es “pensar como un geek y actuar como un chaval. Esto te mantendrá joven (y en el negocio)”.  
7. La calidad se impone sobre la cantidad. En el mundo de los ‘social media’ hay mucha gente obsesionada con cuántos amigos, followers o fans tiene. Pero en 2009 esto cambia, los usuarios empiezan a poner filtros en sus redes para seleccionar a la gente de “más calidad”, aquellos que realmente dan valor a sus conversaciones personales y comunidades.

Vía: Marketingdirecto.com

NYT pierde dinero, pero arrasa en los Pulitzer

Pese al crecimiento del periodismo digital, este año los premios Pulitzer (ing.) no han reconocido la labor de ningún medio en Internet. Sólo Politico.com ha sido finalista pese a que una cuarta parte de los trabajos presentados fueron digitales. Y, aunque este año está siendo un año duro económicamente para The New York Times, la redacción del diario neoyorquino vuelve a ser una referencia mundial, pues no cede ante la crisis. Así lo ha decidido el jurado de que ha entregado cinco galardones a este periódico. Es la segunda vez en su historia que gana tantas menciones en los Oscars del periodismo, y ya suma 101 desde que se le concedió el primero en 1917.

Lista completa de ganadores

Once países de Latinoamérica tienen ya ley de acceso a la información 

 Según informa el Knight Center, un total de once países en América Latina disponen actualmente de una Ley de Acceso a la Información Pública. El último en sumarse a la lista fue Chile, donde la ley estará vigente desde el lunes 20 de abril. Las leyes de transparencia permiten que quienes soliciten información al gobierno lo hagan sin exponer razones legales para legitimar sus demandas. Cada ciudadano tiene la potestad de requerir los datos que quiera, y el Estado, la obligación de otorgarlos. No existe como ley en Argentina (aunque hay un discutido decreto), Paraguay, Bolivia y Venezuela, y una ley aprobada en Guatemala entrará en vigencia próximamente. Tampoco en España. 

‘Todos los contenidos que merece la pena enlazar’

The New York Times o The Guardian ya no son solo diarios. Ni siquira diarios digitales. Entre los grandes periódicos del mundo son los que más han avanzado en convertirse en medios plataforma. La audiencia llega a través de diferentes medios, soportes y con acceso distribuido a datos organizados por algoritmos y que puedn ejecutarse a través de programas alojados en la propia web o las que interactúan con ella. El periodismo ya no es sólo el relato de los hechos cotidianos, aquel ‘todas las noticias que vale la pena publicar’ que Adolph S. Och adoptó por lema del Times. Pued cambiarse por un ‘todos los contenidos que vale la pena enlazar’ para reunir gran parte de los principios del nuevo ciberperiodismo.

Así comienza el artículo del incansable Juan Varela para la revista El Noticiero de las Ideas, donde hace un análisis sobre lo que está ocurriendo.  Lo titula “La venganza de la abundancia informativa. La invención del peirodismo en la red social”. Como todo lo suyo, muy aconsejable.

Tendremos V en España

Contra toda lógica empresarial, el maltrecho mercado editorial español va ser testitgo de la primera aventura internacional de V Magazine, una cabecera neoyorquina dedicada a la moda y las tendencias y considerada ‘de prestigio’.  V Spain (¿Por qué no España?) saldrá de la mano de una pequeña compañía barcelonesa, Edit, con una tirada inicial de 40.000 ejemplares y un precio de portada de cinco euros. Al igual que ha sucedido con las ediciones españolas de otras cabeceras internacionales como Rolling Stone o Vanity Fair, el gran reto para los editores es cuánto material utilizar del original.

Vía: El País  

Los músculos de Obama ‘retocados’ por el Photoshop

Esta semana se ha hablado bastante de los pectorales de Obama. Ha sido por culpa del número de mayo de la revista Washingtonian (ing.), que ha causado, según informa El Mundo,  un fuerte revuelo entre los lectores y las publicaciones norteamericanas. La portada, con el titular de ‘26 razones para amar vivir aquí’, muestra una imagen de Barack Obama sin camiseta. Y, ante los comentarios suscitados sobre los presidenciales pectorales, la cabecera ha reconocido que usó el programa Photoshop.  

Qué dicen quienes tienen algo que decir

Me parece interesante seguir las pistas que dejan las entrevistas que está realizando Amphibia http://www.amphibia.com.ar/  :

• Aron Pilhofer, del Interactive News Team de The New York Times
• Michael Wolff, de Newser.com 
• Kevin Anderson, editor de blogs de Guardian.co.uk 
• Ryan Sholing, de ReportingOn

Cuando todos parece que ganan, la humildad asombra

Nueva oleada de Estudio General de Medios (EGM, pdf). Me quedo con lo que comenta Borja Ventura al respecto:

Como ex trabajador de 20minutos.es ya me siento legitimado para decir según qué cosas sin que suenen a peloteo. Que mi ex director escriba en su blog que los generalistas “perdemos lectores” según el EGM es todo un ejemplo. Todos los demás ganan (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Público). Curioso, ¿no? Enhorabuena por ser tan honesto. 

Auge del periodismo hiperlocal

El cierre de periódicos aumenta el éxito de páginas en internet dedicadas a la información local más cercana. Muchas de estas web llevan ya varios años funcionando, pero el cierre reciente de varios diarios y la desaparición de las ediciones en papel de muchos otros está aumentando la popularidad de las páginas de información ‘hiperlocal’. Dan Gillmor, director del Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, organización que ayuda a los empresarios del sector de los medios digitales, no cree que estas páginas “lleguen a sustituir a la prensa local”, pero cree que “son estupendas y muy útiles”.

Vía El Mundo 

Yo pirateo, pero tú no puedes

Jua Luis Sánchez comenta la paradoja de Telecinco en una clarividente entrada titulada “Tú no puedes usar mi material; yo sí puedo usar el tuyo”

La paradoja es tremenda: Telecinco pone el grito en el cielo porque hay gente subiendo (y promocionando, por cierto) fragmentos de sus programas y sin embargo, como casi todas las cadenas de televisión, ocupa un buen porcentaje de su parrilla con programas hechos con vídeos de YouTube u otras plataformas. Y sin citar a su autor. Ya se encargó Rosa aquel día de ponerle ante esta contradicción a Bautista en la ronda de preguntas, pero por supuesto eso no ha cambiado las cosas. 

Medios y desinformación

Recupero con retraso una entrada del blog de Enrique Dans titulada “Los medios, la desinformación y los intereses creados”:

Fue la noticia destacada del pasado viernes en todos los informativos y en la mayor parte de la prensa: la primera sentencia condenatoria por lucrarse con descargas ilegales. Se decía que un juez del Juzgado de lo Penal 1 de Logroño había condenado al internauta de 22 años, A.G.L. a seis meses de prisión y al pago de 4.900 euros por lucrarse con descargas de Internet a través de una página web que ofrecía enlaces para descargar películas y videojuegos, protegidos con derechos de autor. Una noticia que se utilizaba poco más o menos que para dar a entender que “los tiempos de la impunidad se habían acabado”, y que pronto acabaríamos todos en la más negra de las prisiones. ¿Dónde está el problema? En que la noticia era FALSA. No “tendenciosa”, ni “matizada”, ni “media verdad”, sino directamente falsa. Más falsa que Judas.  (Continúa)

Data is relationships

Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data, en TED Talks (febrero de 2009).

Y no me hago responsable de posibles malas interpretaciones: se deberán a mentes maliciosas o a la nula capacidad semántica del etiquetado empleado.

Tim Berners-Lee berättar i det här TED-talet om en ny webb av länkade datamängder. Spännande med anknytning till återanvändning av offentlig information (Public Sector Information).

TED talks are very often great videos to watch, but this one should be a particular wet dream for every empirically oriented scientist: